NEW TIME! Blood from a Stone: LB2O'side
11.8.08
NOTE: we are now leaving an hour earlier than originally planned to facilitate a little more padding, time-
wise for people who want to take the late amtrak back to la, which leaves oceanside at 10:04pm
This is a medium-paced, 70-80 mile ride from Long Beach to Stone Brewing Company in North San Diego
County, CA, before it gets too chilly! If you have never been to stone, it's a beer paradise where one can
sit outside among hop plants and sip on any number of world-class brews, or the freshest Arrogant Bastard
you've e'er tasted.
MEETUP: 9am, Sat. Nov. 8th, Long Beach transit mall
RIDEOUT: 9:30am down PCH to Oceanside at a non-exhausting pace with brief stops every ~15
miles, or as needed.
THE PLAN: We ride to Oceanside. Depending on how we feel, we either ride another ~18 miles
inland to stone brewing company, or we take the spiffy new north-county-light-rail "SPRINTER" train. We
drink many beers. Depending on how drunk we get/how late we stay, we either ride or train it back ~12
miles towards the coast and crash at my mom's house (i know, right?! this offer will be capped at about a
dozen riders, assuming the group gets that large)...however, the oceanside amtrak/metrolink station and
adjacent cheap motels are just a few stops further down the line, soooo you have a few options:
-Take an evening amtrak, or even the last metrolink, back to LA straight from oceanside (no trip to
stone). This will have you back in LA by sat. evening
-Ride from stone to a late amtrak back to LA, getting you in Saturday around midnight/1am sunday.
-Sleep in Oceanside and take an early metrolink/amtrak back to LA sunday morning
-Hang around in Oceanside on sunday and take a late train back on sunday (the option I'll be...well,
opting for)
NOTE: I fully intend on doing the wolfpack all-city century the following monday...we will have over 48
hrs to recuperate from this ride, and I'm planning to take it somewhat easy with the intent of ensuring fresh
legs monday night.
BRING: at least two tubes that fit, cashola, calories, water bottle cages, lights, at least one warmish
layer, an extra tire casing if yer paranoid, sunblock if you don't want gross leathery skin/melanoma.
Further planning over here.
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